Isolation and characterization of two teleost melanopsin genes and their differential expression within the inner retina and brain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 456, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 84-93

  Drivenes, Øyvind ^a   Søviknes, Anne Mette ^a   Ebbesson, Lars O E ^a   Fjose, Anders ^a   Seo, Hee Chan ^b   Helvik, Jon Vidar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b Sars International Centre for Marine Molecular Biology   (Norway)

Author keywords

Circadian rhythms; Habenula; Opsin; Retina; Suprachiasmatic nucleus; Takifugu; Xenopus

Indexed keywords

MELANOPSIN; OPSIN; OPSIN 4A; OPSIN 4B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VISUAL PIGMENT;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CHICKEN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HABENULA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN ISOLATION; PUFFER FISH; RETINA; RETINA AMACRINE CELL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TELEOST; XENOPUS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; FISHES; HABENULA; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OPSIN; RETINA; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0037467596     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.10523     Document Type: Article

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